The week leading up the Easter weekend has been very busy!

Monday morning I was super excited to see the council finally take away the rubbish (or most of it).

I potted-on the very leggy tomatoes! I’ve moved these to a kind of polytunnel and they’ve been fine so far, but there is an ‘arctic wind’ and temperatures will dip to -3 in the coming days.

I do worry that I’ve been too hasty with these and so have planted an ‘insurance’ set too, along with some new varieties.

I dug over the messy end of the plot (where the rubbish was) and in the process found numerous old carpet tiles (yes, the weeds had just grown on top!). So now have a new heap which we are slowly moving (yes, Mr B actually helped a tiny bit this weekend).

I laid some membrane and put the Wickes walk in greenhouse up! It has blown over twice leaving a nasturtium casualty (I cried). I’ve put more pegs and a sandbag on top of it now so we shall see! It really is rubbish – little more than 4 very shallow and unstable shelves. I want a proper greenhouse in my garden more than ever now. Mr B will not allow it because of ‘his lawn’. Contemplating divorce.

And let’s not forget the Birdie’s Original Veggie Bed! I waited months for these things to arrive and finally decided to put it up on a very warm day. I took three down to the plot thinking it would take minutes with no tools required (I’m sure i saw that advertised!).

No! This was not the case. It was full of nuts and bolts and needs 5 for each panel (8 panels per bed). The instructions seemed to suggest that a tool was contained within but alas – no! So I put in as many as I could – took me an hour and even then they are not all in (I gave up) and not tightened. The edges are also very sharp. They say to wear gloves but that’s impossible when fiddling around with nuts and bolts! I also think I need to scrape another layer of mud back to level it even more and also to line the bottom of these really deep beds! I’m not sure how I’m going to get them up! Too dangerous around the girls.